Ansbach

Ansbach, formerly Anspach , city, BavariaLand (state), southern Germany. It lies on the Rezat River, southwest of Nürnberg. Ansbach originated around the Benedictine monastery of Onolzbach (founded 748) and was sold to a Franconian branch of the Hohenzollern line (later margraves of Brandenburg-Ansbach-Bayreuth) in 1331. It passed to Prussia in 1791 and to Bavaria in 1806. Queen Caroline, consort of King George II of Great Britain (reigned 1727–60), was born there in 1683, and there is a memorial to Kaspar Hauser (a mysterious youth reputed to have been the hereditary prince of Baden), who died there in 1833.

A railway and road junction, Ansbach is the commercial and administrative centre for the Middle Franconia region. Manufactures include electronics and synthetic materials; food processing is also economically important. Notable buildings in Ansbach include the 12th-century Romanesque church of St. Gumbertus (which has been restored in the Baroque style) and the palace of the margraves (1713–32), with a fine park. The biennial International Bach Week at Ansbach begins in late July. Pop. (2003 est.) 40,708.

Click anywhere inside the article to add text or insert superscripts, subscripts, and special characters.
You can also highlight a section and use the tools in this bar to modify existing content:

Add links to related Britannica articles!
You can double-click any word or highlight a word or phrase in the text below and then select an article from the search box.
Or, simply highlight a word or phrase in the article, then enter the article name or term you'd like to link to in the search box below, and select from the list of results.

Note: we do not allow links to external resources in editor.
Please click the Web sites link for this article to add citations for
external Web sites.